January 2006 - dev-context - NTG Mailing Lists

newpstopdf - only the first page?
by Mojca Miklavec 20 Jan '06

20 Jan '06

Is newpstopdf (without any arguments) supposed to convert the first page of ps only? Mojca

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using xpdf instead of acrobat
by Taco Hoekwater 20 Jan '06

20 Jan '06

Attached is a small patch for texexec (perl version) and a minimalistic shell script. This allows texexec --autopdf --xpdf --pdf test.pdf It will use xpdf instead of acroread. This removes the need to press 'R' in xpdf, nothing else. It is mostly useful when running texexec from an editor Cheers, Taco #!/usr/bin/env sh screen xpdf -remote TeXExec $* &

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Ann-context@ntg.nl and NTG-context@ntg.nl
by Taco Hoekwater 13 Jan '06

13 Jan '06

Hi! Hans, can you add ntg-context as a subscriber of ann-context? That way I eon't have to add the normal list manually for each announcement. TIA, Taco

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texshow (request, what else?) again
by Mojca Miklavec 07 Jan '06

07 Jan '06

Hello, Patrick, a small proposal again: there are some commands in ConTeXt such as \texteuro, \ccaron, \tracewhatever, ... which are not really proper commands like \setupframed[..]. In case you still have any space for manipulation in that way: have you considered a possibility for adding such "pseudo-commands" as well? If you add support for such weird stuff, you can then add flags to commands (in the sense of Categories on wiki), say "context command" (those that are currently present in texshow), "symbol" (texteuro, ccaron, dstroke, ...), "low-level commands" (do not use!), "metafun macros" (although they currently don't really fit in very well), "TeX primitive", "plain TeX macro", "commands from a certain module" (bibliography, lettrine, m-* files, s-* files, ...) The basic search would then consider only commands from the "same" set that is currently present, while "full search" or links from wiki could access the whole set of commands/macros/primitives/... The stubborn Mojca again

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cont-en.xml
by Patrick Gundlach 05 Jan '06

05 Jan '06

Hi, I'll be away for some days over christmas and I know I'll get bored once or twice, so I can have a look into the new texshow. What applications (besides mine) use the xml defintion file? * quick references (pdf) * the perl/tk based browser (can't remember its name, sorry) * ? I am not sure what I want to do yet, but there are cleanups to be done, such as the bodyfont=5...12pt thing, style=normal,...,command. I guess that these should be substituted by a special tag 'you can use a bodyfont instruction' such as cd:fontinstr or cd:style for the other one. But I don't promise anything. Patrick -- ConTeXt wiki and more: http://contextgarden.net

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ConTeXt Revisions project
by Taco Hoekwater 05 Jan '06

05 Jan '06

Hi All, I wrote a few weeks ago, about making old context releases available to everybody: >>I'll start adding stuff next week. The first ones >>will be hard, [..] 122 massive commits later, I am finished putting all cont-tmf.zip files in the subversion repository: https://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ The svn comment is always the release date. There are less than 122 releases in the SVN, more like 110, because sometimes I messed up the commit, and had to add a few files afterwards. Usually, that happened when new directories were added to the zip (it is surprisingly hard to get that right in one iteration). Everything from March 2003 onwards is complete and reliable, there can be tiny errors in the older commits (it took me that long to iron out all of the bugs in the zip compare script). I've lowercased the MS-DOS filenames in the oldest zips, and put them in tex/context/base (these antiquary zips did not have an embedded directory tree). I will create file releases for every zip archive also, but there are problems with the uploads for that, so it'll have to wait until Fabrice has time to debug the site configuration. If you want to make sure you download a 100% accurate version of one of the old releases, it is better to wait for those releases to appear. Happy TeXing! Taco

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fonts on the garden
by Mojca Miklavec 05 Jan '06

05 Jan '06

Hello, Patrick, I should probably leave your "stack" untouched until you finish the texshow, but I have a request for once you find some time. There are many fonts missing on the garden (including the new lm ones, antykwa, iwona, ... in those example with bold typewritter (cm) on the wiki). I would like to suggest to upgrade/add those fonts (tfm's), perhaps together with some more fancy fonts for which Hraban wrote some modules (or maybe some other as well) and together with a corresponding wiki page, so that users can see how they're named and examples how to use them. Adding additional fonts & modules takes some more work, but perhaps at least the new versions of Polish fonts would be very useful. XeTeX can't be supported on the garden, but perhaps Aleph once in the very distand future ... I added Hraban to CC since he's not on this list and could surely help a lot. Best wishes, Mojca

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cont-en.xml
by Patrick Gundlach 03 Jan '06

03 Jan '06

Hi, an empty parameter slipped into cont-en.xml in <cd:command name="setupdescriptions" file="core-des.tex"> I guess this should be: ~/prog/ruby/garden/newtexshow/spielwiese$ diff -u cont-en.xml{-orig,} --- cont-en.xml-orig 2005-11-24 22:31:16.000000000 +0100 +++ cont-en.xml 2006-01-02 12:38:05.000000000 +0100 @@ -3015,6 +3015,7 @@ <cd:constant type="hanging"/> </cd:parameter> <cd:parameter name="headcommand"> + <cd:variable type="cd:command" /> </cd:parameter> <cd:parameter name="hang"> <cd:constant type="fit"/> Patrick -- ConTeXt wiki and more: http://contextgarden.net

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Re: Cron <context@server> /var/www/aanhet.net/context/bin/cron/context-svn
by Taco Hoekwater 02 Jan '06

02 Jan '06

Hi, starting sometime yesterday, I 've been getting these messages from my svn checkout script: Cron Daemon wrote: > svn: Can't find a temporary directory I've searched on subversion.org, and it seems that this means that the svn server cannot write to it's temporary directory (/tmp or /var/tmp ?). Hans, can you check this please? Cheers and Happy Newyear! Taco

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